Books

We Were Children Just Like You

by Eliach, Yaffa (1990); Published by Brooklyn, NY: Center for Holocaust Studies and Documentation

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution?

by Sonnert, Gerhard and Holton, Gerald (2006); Published by New York, Palgrave Macmillan

This book aims to create a collective biography of Jewish young people who were born in Germany or Austria between 1918 and 1935 and fled to the United States. It endeavors to present a statistical picture as well as to capture personal experiences based on a five-year, in-depth study. One of the book’s aims is to provide readers with information to influence the view of immigrant newcomers in the United States today.

When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the Third Reich

by Zeller, Frederic (1989); Published by Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent Press

Frederic Zeller’s story of his childhood in Berlin and escape to Holland, where he joined a Kindertransport. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History

by Epstein, Helen (1997); Published by Boston: Little, Brown

A memoir of the lives of Epstein’s mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust

by London, Louise (2000); Published by Cambridge University Press